Reddit Reddit user posts will fuel Google’s LLM – others should think twice before trying to do the same Changing T/Cs retrospectively ain't gonna work
News ServiceNOW unwraps NetACE buy as it targets creaking telcos As it cuddles up to AI darling Nvidia in Barcelona to generate telco friendly products
java Thanks Oracle! Java licence squeeze puts a rocket under Azul "Oracle’s licensing model for Java SE can be dauntingly expensive, and many users are exploring other options" says Gartner. A big winner? A low-profile Java veteran...
utilities National Grid eyes £50 million service desk, digital workforce overhaul, as changes loom A UK net zero target and fossil fuel vehicle ban are likely to result in as many as 1,600 connections to the grid each day. Current application processes are inadequate.
OpenAI US watchdog warns on "security, equity, civil rights" risks of open LLMs - launches consultation Open models hold potential for “substantial harms, such as risks to security, equity, civil rights, or other harms due to, for instance, affirmative misuse, failures of effective oversight, or lack of clear accountability mechanisms”
ConnectWise Leaked LockBit malware deployed in ScreenConnect attacks – 600+ IPs seen attacking 8,200 instances "The executable in question was built using the LockBit 3 ransomware builder tool leaked in 2022, so this particular sample may not have originated with the actual LockBit developers"
NVIDIA NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang sees a “giant suite” of AI robots coming soon... "The amount of inference that we do is just off the charts now”
Members only HSBC HSBC shakes up technology governance, plans new NED-led Board committee "We continue to upgrade many of our IT systems and are transforming how software solutions are developed..."
Members only LLMs PDFs, RAG, and LlamaParse: Generative AI's "Swiss Army Knife" adds a welcome new toolkit "Building production-grade RAG remains a complex and subtle problem... unlike traditional software, every decision in the data stack directly affects the accuracy of the full LLM-powered system."
vulnerabilities CVSS 10 ConnectWise vulnerability “extremely trivial to reverse and exploit” as POC lands, attacks start "There might be active exploitation attempts across common AWS IP space"
Members only spyware Massive “i-Soon” leak reveals Chinese firm's hacking tools, targets, including NATO Tools, gripes of contractor working for China's Ministry of Public Security dumped online in landmark breach
AI Microsoft plans to rain billions on AI in Spain AI-berian investent follows a $3.44 billion boost to Germany, and a $3.2 billion training investment in the UK.
space Up, up and beyond: Italy looks to push HPC beyond the cloud and into space While UK looks for partners as it hitches a ride with Axiom Space
News National Crime Agency smashes LockBit infrastructure, grabs 1,000 decryption keys Did NCA, FBI deploy an exploit for PHP vulnerability CVE-2023-3824 to break the prolific group's systems?
News Reddit strikes 'AI training deal' for user content. Copyright and privacy lawyers set to go wild? Too late for users to back out now?
Members only AWS Wyze blames AWS outage, Redis cache issues for video camera security howler Never, NEVER mix up "device ID and user ID mappings" kids....
British Telecom National Highways rolls out £650 million roadside telecoms tender Contract covers cable-based, wireless and public network technologies to make journeys 'seamless'
Members only chatbots In “remarkable” court submission, Air Canada argued its chatbot is responsible... "While you cannot rely on a disclaimer to avoid your consumer protection responsibilities altogether, a clearly worded and conspicuous disclaimer goes a long way to educating consumers..."
Members only News EU’s Digital Services Act sweeps up thousands of online services over the weekend Non-EU-based sites like OnlyFans need to appoint EU reps. Fast.
OpenAI’s “Sora” lets you create video from text: Be awed, be worried. Company says it is releasing examples "to give the public a sense of what AI capabilities are on the horizon" as one expert, NVIDIA's Dr Jim Fan emphasised that "if you think OpenAI Sora is a creative toy like DALLE... think again"
Members only Ivanti 13,000 unpatched Ivanti appliances exposed as attacks escalate, firmware analysis shocks users. “Security” product shipped with a 13-year-old, unsupported base OS and software libraries with 973 vulnerabilities; 111 of which have publicly known exploits available.
AI Google’s massively multimodal Gemini 1.5 Pro preview shows a giant warming to its task "Coming soon, we plan to introduce pricing tiers that start at the standard 128,000 context window and scale up to 1 million tokens"
central government Ministry of Justice wanted ICT to be nimble and data driven. For now it’s grappling with technical debt and running late "One of the most outsourced government departments with major contracts to manage"
Members only Patch Tuesday February’s Patch Tuesday brings exploited zero days, Exchange Server headaches As a major Exchange Service update lands, Redmond admits "it is possible that some functionality may break after installing CU14..."